UPSC GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is S. Abdul Nazeer, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, who is the Chancellor of the university and attended the Ruby Jubilee celebrations.

Postgraduate seats have risen by 177 per cent, from about 31,000 earlier to more than 86,000 now.

The Vice-President said the number of medical colleges in the country has more than doubled, rising to 846 at present.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan addressed its 40th anniversary, called the Ruby Jubilee, in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, released a souvenir on the university's forty-year journey and asked its researchers to aim for global recognition in medical science.

A quarterly declaration of movable and immovable property is not part of the Integrity Pledge; the pledge is a statement of personal commitment, not a disclosure requirement.

The correct answer is J. P. Nadda, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, who read out the Integrity Pledge to senior officers at Kartavya Bhawan-1 in New Delhi.

The week is deliberately placed around his birthday, which falls on 31 October, and that is why this year's observance runs from 26 October to 1 November 2026 rather than on fixed calendar dates.

The theme set for the week is 'Satyanishtha se Samriddhi', which the government renders in English as Probity for Prosperity, and it treats honesty, integrity and openness as the pillars that hold up good governance and public trust in institutions.

The English economic historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in English in his lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England.

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765 to protest against the Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament that year.

An antecedent river is older than the uplift it now cuts across. The Indus, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra rise beyond the main Himalayan range, north of it in Tibet.

A canyon is a deep valley whose sides fall in steep, step-like slopes. Both gorges and canyons are cut by rivers, mostly in the youthful stage.

A field of many drumlins lying side by side looks like eggs packed in a basket, so it is called basket-of-eggs topography.

In March 1927 Dr Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the right of the depressed classes to draw water from the public Chavdar tank at Mahad.

The two western Union Territories were joined into a single Union Territory from 26 January 2020. Parliament passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act in December 2019, and the merger took effect on 26 January 2020.

Cultural cooperation is not one of the five principles of Panchsheel. Panchsheel, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was set out in the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru's government and Zhou Enlai's. The five…

Easy credit from banks and a good transport network were both among the reasons Britain became the first country to industrialise.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopted Purna Swaraj, complete independence, as the Congress goal.

The Anglo-Indian teacher of Hindu College, Calcutta, inspired the radical student group known as Young Bengal in the late 1820s. Derozio taught at Hindu College from 1826 to 1831.

Ramanuja, the eleventh-twelfth century teacher of Sriperumbudur, taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism. Vishishtadvaita holds that Brahman is the only reality, but souls and matter are real parts of Brahman, as the body is to the soul, and that devotion to Vishnu leads to liberation.